The Billionaire's Secret Quartet

Chapter 851

Heat hung heavy and thick in the air.

It tantalized Thalassa’s senses, causing her taut heart to skip a beat.

No one understood Lysander’s current state better than she did.

Her internal alarm bells were sounding, but she was paralyzed and frozen in place.

In silence, she held Elowen’s soft and little body in her arms. Behind her, Lysander’s broad, heated chest enveloped her; his arms were wrapping around her, and his hot breath was falling on the nape of her neck.

She was torn between protecting her precious baby and the imminent danger of the beast that could tear her to shreds at any moment.

Time ticked away.

Elowen grew softer in her arms. She had fallen asleep.

presence didn’t diminish. She had no clue if he

but a low, magnetic male voice stopped her.

not attending his funeral?” His voice was laced with a hint

move, suddenly froze; her nerves were on

her puzzled and alarmed, unable to decipher

was dead. Didn’t that affect

when she

regret it. Who wouldn’t be regretful for not being able to send off a

come to me?” Lysander

nuzzled her neck. His words, transformed into breath, brushed against her vulnerable

dared not keep

you, it would have put you in a difficult

had explicitly forbidden her from attending Leopold’s funeral, Thalassa had abandoned the idea altogether. She knew that